“We can’t make an African-American white.”
— Michigan State Senator Marty Knollenberg (R), quoted by WXYZ, on the educational disparities between different demographic groups.
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White House Altered Transcript of Biden Remarks
“White House press officials altered the official transcript of a call in which President Joe Biden appeared to take a swipe at supporters of Donald Trump, drawing objections from the…
What Are We Even Talking About Here?
Basketball superstar LeBron James threw his support behind Kamala Harris’ presidential bid Thursday evening, emphasizing that “the choice is clear” just days ahead of Election Day. Save to Favorites
Trump Campaign Pauses Its Premature Celebration
Tara Palmeri: “We’re less than a week from Election Day, and the mood inside the Trump campaign has undergone yet another transformation. Last week, I reported on the preemptive but…
Access Hollywood Video Goes Viral Again
“It’s been eight years since leaked audio from a conversation between Donald Trump and TV host Billy Bush made waves for the former president’s descriptions of kissing and grabbing women…
Mike Johnson Denies Obamacare Repeal Plan
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said House Republicans have no intention of dismantling the Affordable Care Act after a video clip surfaced of him on the campaign trail promising “massive reform”…
J.D. Vance Says Kids ‘Become Trans’ to Get Into College
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) suggested in an interview with podcast host Joe Rogan that aired Thursday that White upper- and middle-class children are incentivized to identify as transgender to gain…
Republicans More Negative Than Democrats in TV Ads
“If you live in a presidential battleground state, and you feel like there is a lot of negativity on your television screen, there is data to back that up,” the…
RFK Jr. Would Have Big Role in a Trump Administration
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is poised to have significant control over health and food safety in a potential Trump administration, with discussions about some Cabinet and agency officials reporting to…
Democrats Say They Will Certify a Trump Victory
“Democrats in Congress for years have labeled Donald Trump an ‘insurrectionist,’ impeached him for stoking violence on Jan. 6, 2021, and suggested he is constitutionally prohibited from returning to the…
Chicago School Board President Resigns After a Week
“Chicago Board of Education President Mitchell Johnson stepped down on Thursday, one week after taking the oath of office, following revelations about controversial social media posts he’d made,” Bloomberg reports….
Governor Stepping Down and Running for Mayor
Delaware Gov. John Carney “is about to do something that no other governor in modern American history has done — step down as a state’s leader and immediately take office…
Trump Sues CBS News for $10 Billion
Donald Trump is suing CBS News over a “60 Minutes” interview it broadcast with Vice President Harris earlier this month that he and his allies have claimed was edited to…
What Trump Is Being Told
“A new internal memo by Tony Fabrizio, chief pollster for all three of Donald Trump’s presidential campaigns, tells the former president he’s in a radically better position than he was…
Democrats Widen Spending Gap in Final Stretch
Democrats have roughly doubled their national ad spending advantage against Republicans over the last month or so, Axios reports. Save to Favorites
The 2024 Elections Will be Close, Probably… Maybe
Just for members: The latest edition of . With days to go before the election, there’s still plenty of uncertainty. Republicans are favored to win control of the Senate but…
Low Ceilings
Charlie Cook: “As we find ourselves in yet another cliffhanger of an election, the negative partisanship that has developed over the last three decades should not be underestimated. The high…
Ex-Trump Attorney Has Law License Suspended
Former Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro had his law license suspended in New York Thursday over his role in the alleged effort to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results, Axios reports. Save…
Daines Privately Backs John Thune for GOP Senate Leader
Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT), who has been leading Republican efforts to win a majority in the Senate, has been privately telling colleagues that he supports Sen. John Thune (R-SD) for…
Gun Death Rates in U.S. Comparable to War Zones
Washington Post: “The report, published Wednesday by the Commonwealth Fund, an independent research group, found that the overall rate of firearms deaths in Mississippi was nearly twice that of Haiti,…
Fed’s Preferred Inflation Gauge Cooled in September
“Inflation has been cooling for two years, and fresh data released on Thursday showed that trend continued in September. Prices climbed just 2.1 percent compared with a year earlier,” the…
